Episode 20: Legal Fictions and how do we get that good stuff in us?

On today’s show we discuss whether the doctrine of Sola Fide is actually a legal fiction. When God declares us righteous, is he actually telling the truth? The Pseudepodcast lads read obscure Luther quotes that make it sound like he said things other than “sin boldly”.

Featured Content

• Justification — Forensic and Real: How the East gets it wrong (and we Lutherans don’t get it…)
• A Brief Response To Subdeacon Benjamin Harju (on the Role of Regeneration in the Lutheran Doctrine of Justification)

This week’s dramatic interlude is a poem: “The Lutheran”, composed in 5 minutes by Levi and read by Matt, Trent, and Levi.

This episode’s bump-music was selected by Matt:

• Spem In Alium (Thomas Tallis) – Tallis Scholars
• Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei